Sept.17 marks the anniversary of the signing of the #Constitution. #JamesMadison wrote to #ThomasJefferson in March 1787, when plans were underway for the #ConstitutionalConvention, “What may be the result of this political experiment cannot be foreseen.”
11 days before the Constitution was signed, Madison wrote Jefferson, “If the present moment be lost it is hard to say what may be our fate.”
We know that Demas was born #OTD in 1777 because Isaac Hite recorded his birthdate after receiving Demas and his family as a wedding gift from James Madison Sr.
#OTD in 1845, 250 veterans of the Battle of Baltimore were honored in Washington DC on the battle’s
31 st anniversary – and they took time to honor their wartime First Lady.
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Dolley Madison,
by then 77 years old, had become an icon of an earlier time in American history.
William Elwell, 1848 portrait of Dolley Madison, National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution.
“the US founders had a healthy fear of corporations after being exploited for years by those in England. As a result, they only granted select corporate charters, mainly to those that were beneficial to society as a whole. For the better part of the first 100 years of US history, the power of corporations was severely limited as owners could not own any stock or property, make financial donations to a political party, and legislators could dissolve a corporation at any time relatively easily."
This could be #Trump's biggest lie yet (at least in terms of dollar amount). He now claims he lost money while serving as #president, but in reality he made more than $2 billion while in office. That's #billion with a B. No other president in #UShistory has ever made anything remotely close to that figure while serving as president. There's nothing Trump won't lie about.
Join Montpelier’s Sr. Research Historian Hilarie Hicks as she discusses Montpelier’s duPont family history, shows personal photos of the duPonts at Montpelier, and reveals some surprising connections between the Madisons and duPonts.
What does a #President do if the #WhiteHouse is uninhabitable?
Rent a new house! That's what #JamesMadison did on Sept. 8, 1814, moving into the #OctagonHouse after British troops burned the White House.
National Photo Company collection, Library of Congress, 1910-1926.
"A required Hillsdale lesson for Pennridge School District third graders covers the 'history of slavery in world history.' The lesson encourages teachers to downplay the prevalence of slavery in America, instead emphasizing slavery in other parts of the world."
Really enjoying this. It's both an impressively erudite and remarkably accessible retelling of #USHistory that centers #Indigenous peoples and obliterates a number of national myths. Highly recommended and worth imitating for historians (like me!) working in other national contexts. #history#AmericanHistory#histodons@histodons
Really enjoying this. It's both an impressively erudite and remarkably accessible retelling of #USHistory that centers #Indigenous peoples and obliterates a number of national myths. Highly recommended and worth imitating for historians (like me!) working in other national contexts. #history#AmericanHistory#histodons@histodons
#OTD 1787 the #ConstituionalConvention appointed a Committee of Style “to revise the
stile of and arrange the articles which had been agreed to by the House," including #JamesMadison.
Gouverneur Morris was the lead writer, penning “We, the People of the United States...”
Marion duPont Scott, the last private owner of #Montpelier, died at home #OTD in 1983, at the age of 89.
In her will, Mrs. Scott expressed a desire that her heirs would transfer Montpelier to The National Trust for Historic Preservation so that it could be restored & furnished to the time period of #JamesMadison. #sschat#histodons#HistoryTeacher#apgov#ushistory@academicchatter
“Orange. September Court. 1771.”
This document in the Montpelier Collection features the remains of #JamesMadison’s signature, unfortunately, lost when the paper was damaged sometime during the past #250 years.
Court document, MF2014.22.2a-c, The Montpelier Collection.
"Despite our country’s history of racially discriminatory laws, Asian immigrants and Asian Americans have consistently engaged in labor resistance. On June 25, 1887, thousands of Chinese railroad workers staged a strike to demand equal pay to white laborers, better working conditions, and shorter workdays. Asian immigrants and Asian Americans have also engaged in labor solidarity and union organizing with other marginalized groups."
Constitution Quiz of the Week!
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Sept. 1, 1787, the debate included a simple & important aspect of the separation of powers that was later codified in Article I, Section 6.
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How One Robber Baron's Gamble on Railroads Brought Down His Bank and Plunged the U.S. Into the First Great Depression (www.smithsonianmag.com)
In 1873, greed, speculation and overinvestment in railroads sparked a financial crisis that sank the U.S. into more than five years of misery